mehtar

Meaning

Noun

A ruler in certain princely states of the Northwest Frontier region.
A sweeper or scavenger of low caste.

Origin

Persian ("prince, great personage"). Regarding the sense of a scavenger, Yule & Burnell (see References) state that the term was "applied to the class in question in irony, or rather in consolation".

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